Bodies of Resistance

Introduction: The Resistant Material
Laura Doyle

Part I. (Dis)Embodiment in Political Philosophy

Chiasmus in the Polis: The Reversible Flesh of Community in Political Philosophy
Jacob Rogozinski

The "Body Politic" and Social Contract Theory: The Phenomenon of "Total Alienation"
Claudia Brodsky Lacour

Part II. Political Bodies in Initimate Alterity

Sexual Difference as a Question of Ethics: Alterities of the Flesh in Irigaray and Merleau-Ponty
Judith Butler

Bodies Inside/Out: A Phenomenology of the Terrorized Body in Prison
Laura Doyle

Part III. Gazing Bodies Made Visible

Matrixial Gaze and Screen: Other Than Phallic and Beyond the Late Lacan
Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger

Hidden Aspects of Goethe's Writings on Color, Seeing and Motion and Their Significance for a Feminist Visual Theory
Beate Allert

Part IV. Racial Bodies Performing Resistance

Legal Bodies, Racial Bodies: Autobiography and Autonomy in Patricia Williams's Alchemy of Race and Rights
Janis Greve

Post-World War II Black Diaspora Musics as Material Practice: Preliminary Thoughts on Time, Culture, and Politics
Kevin Gaines

Part V. Colonial Bodies: Mapping and Counter-Mapping

Method Practice: Toward a Phenomenology of Crosscultural Studies
Cheryl Herr

The Dimensions of History: Colonial Mapping, Architecture, and the Perils of "Constructing Phenomenology"
Daniel Bertrand Monk

Bibliography

Notes on Contributors